The CNCF builds on top of the Open Container Initiative (OCI) image format and runtime industry standard, for which governance was established last week. It addresses the needs of developers seeking options at the orchestration layer of the stack, with a goal of defining APIs and standards through a code first approach to advance the state-of-art of container-packaged application infrastructure.

Because there are many competing solutions and no established standards, the CNCF framework encourages collaboration to create a diverse set of interoperable references stacks for container orchestration such as the Docker Swarm integration with Mesos announced earlier this year. The formation of a governance model encourages contributions and further collaboration, providing developers with the resources they need to more rapidly move Dockerized applications into production.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation is getting started today

Patrick Chanezon is member of technical staff at Docker Inc. He helps to build Docker, an open platform for distributed applications for developers and sysadmins. Software developer and storyteller, he spent 10 years building platforms at Netscape & Sun, then 10 years evangelizing platforms at Google, VMware & Microsoft. His main professional interest is in building and kickstarting the network effect for these wondrous two-sided markets called Platforms. He has worked on platforms for Portals, Ads, Commerce, Social, Web, Distributed Apps, and Cloud. More information is available at linkedin.com/in/chanezon.
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